Backlink outreach agent

Earn links from the pages that already skipped you

It finds the pages your buyers get sent to and you are missing from, works out who can edit each one, and writes the pitch. Or the exchange places the link for you, with no email at all.

We can’t send email, by design. Every draft is copied into your own inbox and sent by you.

A page that skipped youCited, ranking, or linking your rivals

“10 Best SEO Automation Tools”

thestacc.com

  • Cited for your prompts7×
  • Rivals it links to2
  • Quality score86

It lists two of your rivals and not you, and there’s a slot you could fill.

A pitch, written for youTo the person who can edit it
To
Sarah Chen · Content Manager
Subject
Consider SEOLadders for your automation list

Hi Sarah, your piece on automated SEO tools is the one I keep seeing quoted. You cover Semrush and Ahrefs well; the gap is tools that actually write and publish, which is where we sit.

Copy emailI sent it

There is no send button. You send it, from your own address.

Monitored, not assumedRe-checked for weeks, told if it drops
<a href="seoladders.com"
   rel="dofollow">SEOLadders</a>
  • AnchorSEOLadders
  • Passes authoritydofollow
  • StatusStill live

The only number here you didn’t report to us. Re-checked for weeks after, so a link that quietly disappears still shows up.

Two ways, one place

Ask for links, or have them placed.

One of these needs you for about five minutes a week. The other needs nothing at all. Both end up on the same page, where every link is watched.

Outreach

You send it

It finds the pages worth a link, scores each one, finds the person who can actually edit it, and writes the pitch in your voice. You press send from your own inbox, because the product has no send button at all.

  • Up to fifteen pitches a week, drafted and waiting
  • One follow-up after five quiet days, two at most, ever
  • LinkedIn when there is no published address, never a guessed one
The exchange

Nothing to send

Turn it on and your articles carry one link to another member's page, while theirs carry one to yours. No email, no negotiation, and one switch to turn it off.

  • Never a competitor, and never two sites linking straight back
  • One link per article, inside the writing, never a footer
  • The same site links to you at most once a month
Backlinks earned

Every link, watched

One page listing every link pointing at your site, labelled by where it came from: a pitch you sent, the exchange, or found on its own. We don't claim the ones we had nothing to do with.

  • Links we placed are re-checked on a schedule
  • You are told when one comes down
  • Anchor text and the link type recorded for each
The problem

Link building fails in execution, not strategy

Everyone knows which pages they want to be on. The work falls apart in the hundred small steps between knowing and getting there.

Sending to everyone

A scraped list of a thousand domains, the same email to all of them. Reply rates fall through the floor and your sending domain takes the damage, for links that mostly wouldn't have helped anyway.

Reaching the wrong person

info@ goes nowhere. So does a support rep, or a salesperson, or anyone who can't edit the page. The pitch was fine; it just landed with someone who has no power to say yes.

Chasing links that do nothing

A link from an untrusted site doesn't move rankings, and one from a site that sells placements can actively earn you a penalty. Volume feels like progress right up until it isn't.

Automating the judgement away

Fully automatic outreach sends more email, not better email. One bad prompt goes out four hundred times in your name, and the domain it burns is yours.

From a page that skipped you to a link you can prove

Twelve steps, every one of them shown to you. No black box, no automatic sending, no link you have to take our word for.

Citation analysis

Start from the pages AI actually cites

It runs your prompts across the assistants your buyers use and captures every page they quote. That's the target list, not a scraped index of domains, but the specific pages already sitting inside the answers you want to be in.

Prompts your buyers ask

“best SEO automation tools”7
“Semrush alternatives for agencies”5
“how to automate SEO reporting”4

228 pages cited across your prompts · 95 filtered out

Competitor link gap

And the pages linking to your rivals, not you

Citations are one way in. Another is every page that already links to your competitors and doesn't link to you, pulled from a backlink index of the whole web, then filtered hard: syndication networks, scraped copies, spam scores and dead pages all removed before anything reaches your list. What's left is a page whose editor has already decided tools like yours belong there.

One page, three of your rivals

“The 21 Best SEO Tools We Actually Use”

benchmarkone.com · DR 72

semrush.comlinked
surferseo.comlinked
jasper.ailinked
younot there

700 pages examined · 63 survived the filters

Ranking roundups

And the best-of lists your buyers already find

The third way in is plain search. It takes the topics your agent decided are worth owning, runs them as the queries a buyer actually types, “best” and “top”, and reads page one. Only pages shaped like a roundup are kept, listicles, comparisons, alternatives pages and reviews, because those have a row you can be added to. A how-to guide or a news piece has nowhere to put you. The higher a page ranks, the higher it sits in your queue.

best seo automation tools
117 Best SEO Automation ToolsListicle
2Semrush vs Ahrefs vs SurferComparison
3How to automate your SEOGuide
4Top AI Content Tools in 2026Listicle

Page one only. The higher it ranks, the higher it sits in your queue.

Source classification

Every source sorted by how you'd actually win it

A listicle needs an email to its editor. A Reddit thread needs a genuinely useful reply. A G2 listing needs a claimed profile. A GitHub list needs a pull request, and a directory just needs you to submit, so those get instructions rather than a drafted email that would reach nobody. A competitor's own page needs none of it: you can't earn a link there, so it becomes intelligence instead of a task.

Publishers

Editors and authors you can pitch

Social & forums

Live threads on Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn

Review sites

Comparison tables and lists

Repos & directories

On awesome-lists and listing sites you add yourself by pull request or submission form, so it tells you how instead of drafting a pitch nobody would read

Competitors, filtered out

You can't earn a link on a rival's own site, so they're never a target here. They show up under AI Visibility instead, as who AI quotes instead of you.

Authority & quality

Judged on whether the link would help you

Every source gets a score with a reason you can argue with. It weights how often AI cited it for your prompts above raw domain authority, a DR 40 page quoted nine times beats a DR 80 page quoted once. Sites selling placements are refused outright.

10 Best Automated SEO ToolsStrong · 86

Cited 7× · a list you can be added to

SEO news roundup, MarchWeak · 41

Cited once · nobody edits old news

guestpostz.com/write-for-usSkip · 12

Sells links, paid placements advertised

Contact discovery

The person who can edit that exact page

Not info@. It starts on the page you're pitching and reads its byline, follows that author's own profile, then maps the site to find the team and write-for-us pages that actually exist, ranking editors above anyone who'd have to ask permission. When a site publishes no address at all, a contact database is the last resort, and only for someone we've already confirmed works there. We never assemble an address from a name and a domain.

Who can edit this page?

The page you want a link onbyline: Sarah Chen
Her author pagesarah@thestacc.com
Homepage & contact pageonly hello@, a shared inbox

Confidence 95, published on her author page. A shared inbox would be labelled as one. We never guess an address.

Intent mapping

The right page of yours to send them to

It matches the topic of their page against your published pages and picks the one that genuinely fits. When nothing matches well it asks for your homepage instead of forcing a deep link, a bad one is the fastest way to read as automated.

Their page

10 Best Automated SEO Tools

Listicle

Point the link at

/features

matched on topic

Legal, login and utility pages are never suggested, and if nothing matches closely, it asks for your homepage rather than inventing a fit.

Personalized outreach

Written about their page, in your voice

Each pitch references what that specific article covers and names the gap honestly, which competitors it lists, and why you belong beside them. Set your tone, your sign-off, and what you can offer in return once, and every draft inherits it.

SCSarah ChenContent Manager · thestacc.com

Consider SEOLadders for your automation list

Hi Sarah,

I read your piece on automated SEO tools, the point about disconnected reporting is exactly the problem we built for.

You list Semrush and Ahrefs but not us, and we'd fit the solo-founder end of that list.

Your toneNames the real gapNo template
Weekly cadence

Fifteen a week, not five hundred

Your first batch lands the moment onboarding finishes; after that it's every Monday. Five from the pages AI cited most, five from the competitor gap and five from the roundups ranking for your buyers, contacts found, pitches written, because outreach works when each email is worth reading and personal pitches are what one person can actually send and follow up on. Each source gets its own five so none of them crowds the others out, and a publisher you are already waiting on is left alone until they answer. If last week's are still unsent, we hold off rather than pile more on top.

Who can edit this page?

The page you want a link onbyline: Sarah Chen
Her author pagesarah@thestacc.com
Homepage & contact pageonly hello@, a shared inbox

Confidence 95, published on her author page. A shared inbox would be labelled as one. We never guess an address.

Inbox & approval

You approve everything, and nothing goes stale

One page: what to send, what you have sent, and the lists to add yourself to. Sent shows the newest first, and after five quiet days a follow-up is ready to copy, referencing your first email, two at most and then never again. You send every one of them yourself; nothing leaves our system in your name, because nothing leaves our system at all.

7To send
39Sent
6Lists

3 have gone quiet for 6 days

A follow-up is ready to copy, referencing your first email. Two at most, then it leaves them alone.

Link monitoring

It keeps checking the link, and tells you if it drops

It fetches the pages you pitched and looks for a live link back, recording the anchor text and whether it passes authority. Pages you're waiting on are re-checked daily; confirmed links are re-checked every few weeks, so one that quietly disappears months later still surfaces. This is the only number here that isn't self-reported.

It fetches the page and looks

thestacc.comLive
marketermilk.comLive · nofollow
onelittleweb.comNot found yet
Outcome tracking

It learns which targets are worth your time

Conversion by page type, authority band and the role of the person you reached, measured from verified links, never from what was marked won. Nothing is reported until a segment has enough sends to mean something.

Links earned, by page type

Alternatives22%
Listicle14%
Guide6%
News1%

Alternatives pages convert 3× better than guides, so discovery starts weighting toward them.

The workspace

An inbox, not a spreadsheet of domains

One page, in three parts: what to send, what you have sent, and the lists to add yourself to. The draft is already written when you open it.

Outreach in SEOLadders: a drafted pitch for a page that left you out, the evidence for why it is a target, and the buttons to copy it and mark it sent.

To send

Up to fifteen fresh pitches every Monday, contacts found and drafts written, five from the pages AI cited most, five from the pages linking to your competitors, five from the best-of lists ranking for what your buyers search. Each shows its evidence, so you can see why it is worth asking before you spend a word on it.

Sent

What you told us you sent, newest first. After five silent days it offers a follow-up that references your first email, and stops after two. Replies land in your own inbox, where they belong, so there is nothing here to keep up to date.

Lists to add yourself to

Not every target needs an email. Some are directories or curated lists where you add yourself, so those come with the link and the instructions, and one tick when it is done.

Comparison

Fewer emails, better ones

Against the two ways this normally gets done, a mass-send tool, or an afternoon a week by hand.

What mattersSEOLaddersMass toolsBy hand
Targets come from real AI answersNot a scraped domain index
Quality scored before you spend effortWith a reason you can disagree with
Finds the person who can edit the pageByline and author page, not info@
Pitch written about that specific pageIn a voice you set once
You are the one who sends itNot approval, there's no send button here
Follow-ups capped and trackedTwo, then it stops
Links verified on the page afterwardsAnchor text and rel recorded
Learns which targets convert for youFrom verified links, not from claims
Sends the emails for youWe draft; you press send from your own inbox

The last row is the honest trade. We don’t send for you, sending on your behalf needs an inbox connection and a compliance regime that costs more than it earns you right now, and an agent with a send button is one bad prompt from burning your domain.

We can't send email at all

Not "we won't". There is no send button in the product. Every pitch and follow-up is written for you to copy and send yourself, and follow-ups stop at two, permanently.

Real sources, and real contacts

Targets come from pages AI actually cited for your prompts, or from pages already linking to your competitors. Contacts are either published somewhere we can link you to, or returned already verified by a contact database. Never assembled from a name and a domain. If there is no address, it offers LinkedIn instead of inventing one.

Proof, not claims

We fetch the pages you pitched and look for your link, then keep re-checking for weeks. Every link you have is listed and labelled by where it came from: a pitch, the exchange, or found on its own. We don't take credit for the ones we had nothing to do with.

Link building, answered.

Where the targets come from, why we never send anything, and how you know a link is real.

Still have questions? Book a demo →

No, and it can't. There is no send button anywhere in the product. Every pitch and follow-up is written for you to copy, and it goes from your own address rather than ours. Replies come back to your inbox, where they belong. An agent with a send button is one bad prompt away from emailing four hundred people in your name, and the domain that burns would be yours.

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